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governor cuomo came down. he met with the speaker. governor christie came down and met with the speaker. mayor bloomberg came down and met with the majority leader. we were asked to submit documentation. all of them submitted documentation. when we asked if there was anything else required, they said no. when the bill came from the senate, we were told there were sport in the bill. that was taken out of the -- there was pork in the bill. that was taken out of the bill. let me say at this time, my dealings with them, i know that he was fighting hard to get the bill on the calendar. i know it was the speaker has said the bill was being pulled. i consider myself a friend of john boehner. it pains me to say this, but the fact is that the dismissive attitude that was shown last night i would new york, new jersey, and connecticut typifies a strain in the republican party. i know this is not the place to discuss politics, but all it takes has seeped into a decision that was made. i cannot imagine that type of indifference and disregard, that
governor cuomo came down. he met with the speaker. governor christie came down and met with the speaker. mayor bloomberg came down and met with the majority leader. we were asked to submit documentation. all of them submitted documentation. when we asked if there was anything else required, they said no. when the bill came from the senate, we were told there were sport in the bill. that was taken out of the -- there was pork in the bill. that was taken out of the bill. let me say at this time,...
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christie, by governor cuomo, by gov. malloy, by mere bloomberg and by so many others. the documented need. again, it will not make everyone whole emotionally and their personal belongings and their memories and the rest. but it is a sign of respect. we cannot let what happened stand and that the forces will be there to try to return them to some sense of order and home and home life. so i don't know if any decision has been made. i hope not. i hope that, as the leadership needs and considers an agenda or a possible agenda for tomorrow, they would reconsider this. because this goes deep into the hearts of people as they feel a sense of helplessness to something they had no responsibility for, a natural disaster. remember last year when we visited some places where homes were uprooted. it is home, wind and fire. when something like that happens, it is the wind, the water, the fires, every kind of thing assaulting people. let's not be part of that assault by putting doubts in their mind as to whether there's appreciation for what they have lost, a respect for who they are
christie, by governor cuomo, by gov. malloy, by mere bloomberg and by so many others. the documented need. again, it will not make everyone whole emotionally and their personal belongings and their memories and the rest. but it is a sign of respect. we cannot let what happened stand and that the forces will be there to try to return them to some sense of order and home and home life. so i don't know if any decision has been made. i hope not. i hope that, as the leadership needs and considers an...
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i spoke to governor christie, governor cuomo. we have been in constant contact with mayor bloomberg. we cannot believe that this cruel knife in the back to our region. i have to go home this weekend and next week and the week after and see the hundreds and thousands of people who are out of their homes, don't have shelter, don't have food, and they are living with relatives, friends, living in trailers. this is not the united states of america. this should not be the republican party. this should not be the republican leadership. i'm asking the speaker, tell hal rogers, tell these people to somehow become very sanctimonious when it comes to dealing with new york and new jersey they have an obligation to do what they have to do and that's provide the aid and relief we need. if there is one penny that they have a problem with, let us know. don't walk out in the dark of night and ignore us. i yield back my time. >> the gentleman yields back. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new jersey, mr. pallone, for 2 1/2 minutes. >> i tha
i spoke to governor christie, governor cuomo. we have been in constant contact with mayor bloomberg. we cannot believe that this cruel knife in the back to our region. i have to go home this weekend and next week and the week after and see the hundreds and thousands of people who are out of their homes, don't have shelter, don't have food, and they are living with relatives, friends, living in trailers. this is not the united states of america. this should not be the republican party. this...
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and he and governor cuomo have detailed a careful remedy from sandy. in fact, the numbers that i got originally in a meeting were over $80 billion carefully documented. the administration sent us a carefully documented plan. we thought last night we had a deal. we were told it is 99.9%. we didn't think about that extra percent that this was going to come to the floor and we can vote for it. we have been working in a bipartisan way. there is no space between the democrats and republicans in the house of representatives from new york, new jersey and connecticut. little pennsylvania, on this issue. and it was deeply disappointing. and this is why everyone is so angry that this bill didn't come up. >> congresswoman, who does it behoove speaker boehner to put this vote up? i don't understand it. >> you'll have to ask speaker boehner. you'll have to ask mr. cantor. you'll have to ask any of their lieutenants as to why this didn't come up. we were promised. we thought we would have a vote. we know the urgency of it and certainly governor christie and governor
and he and governor cuomo have detailed a careful remedy from sandy. in fact, the numbers that i got originally in a meeting were over $80 billion carefully documented. the administration sent us a carefully documented plan. we thought last night we had a deal. we were told it is 99.9%. we didn't think about that extra percent that this was going to come to the floor and we can vote for it. we have been working in a bipartisan way. there is no space between the democrats and republicans in the...
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governor cuomo came down, i was at the meeting. he met with the speaker. governor kristi came down, mayor bloomberg came down. he met with the majority leader. we were asked to submit detailed document. they all submitted absolute documentation. when we asked is there anything else required? no. you have given us all we need. when the bill came from the senate we were told there was some pork in the bill. that was taken out of the bill. the bill was going to be voted on on the house floor was exactly in compliance what the republican leadership asked us to do. let me just say at this time in my dealings with him, majority leader cantor has been very straightforward, very direct. last night i know that he was fighting to get the bill on the calendar. it was the speaker, for whatever reason, walked off the floor and said that the bill was being pulled. i don't enjoy saying this. i consider myself a personal friend of john boehner. and john boehner personally has been very helpful to me over the years. it pains me to say this. but the fact is dismissive attit
governor cuomo came down, i was at the meeting. he met with the speaker. governor kristi came down, mayor bloomberg came down. he met with the majority leader. we were asked to submit detailed document. they all submitted absolute documentation. when we asked is there anything else required? no. you have given us all we need. when the bill came from the senate we were told there was some pork in the bill. that was taken out of the bill. the bill was going to be voted on on the house floor was...
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. >> andrew cuomo and new york's largely democratic delegation slammed the house and so did one of new york's leading republican house members. >> he kept telling me wait until the vote is over, wait until the fiscal cliff vote is over and then he was gone. he refused to meet with us. he yelled i'm not meeting with you people. he decided to sneak off in the dark of night. >> well by day's end, pete king was singing a different tune. john boehner was promising a friday vote on part of the relief package and speedy action on all the rest as well. dana bash will talk about this in just a moment but, you know, a lot of people are still pretty darn disgusted about how we got here in the first place. like i said, our congressional correspondent dana bash has been up early and to bed very late into bed at all. so, dana, point a to point b it seemed this was warp speed from no action to some action to hopefully a lot more action. can you walk me through the machinations? >> you played some of the comments from members of congress who were absolutely furious. the key here it was the speaker's f
. >> andrew cuomo and new york's largely democratic delegation slammed the house and so did one of new york's leading republican house members. >> he kept telling me wait until the vote is over, wait until the fiscal cliff vote is over and then he was gone. he refused to meet with us. he yelled i'm not meeting with you people. he decided to sneak off in the dark of night. >> well by day's end, pete king was singing a different tune. john boehner was promising a friday vote on...
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and the people who have been damaged by sandy, including governor christie a republican, and governor cuomo should be deeply disappointed and angry that this congress would adjourn without addressing the pain of our fellow citizens. i have been to new york. i have walked the beaches. i have seen their homes that have been destroyed with my colleague, greg meeks. i have talked to to members of congress. congressman crowley, congressman pallone, congressman rothman, all who have had their citizens deeply damaged by the ravages of the perhaps storm of historical proportions that struck the northeast. none of us is immune, not from a tornado, flood or a fire. i deeply regret that i can't change this opinion, but it's not what we ought to be doing that. there are republicans that are grieved by this action and democrats on this floor who are deeply grieved by this action. this is not the right thing to do. i would hope it would be reconsidered. we have asked our members to stay here. every one of them. knowing full well they wanted to go home, just for a day toe see their families. mr. speaker,
and the people who have been damaged by sandy, including governor christie a republican, and governor cuomo should be deeply disappointed and angry that this congress would adjourn without addressing the pain of our fellow citizens. i have been to new york. i have walked the beaches. i have seen their homes that have been destroyed with my colleague, greg meeks. i have talked to to members of congress. congressman crowley, congressman pallone, congressman rothman, all who have had their...
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. >> andrew cuomo and new york's largely democratic delegation also slammed the house's failure to act and so did one of new york's leading republican house members. >> he kept telling me wait until the vote is over, wait until the fiscal cliff vote is over and then he was gone. he refused to meet with us. he yelled i'm not meeting with you people. he wouldn't tell us why. he just decided to sneak off in the dark of night. >> by day's end, john boehner was promising a vote on the relief package and a speedy action on all the rest of the relief package. point "a" to point "b" this is warp speed from no action to some action to hopefully a lot more action. can you walk me through the machinations? >> you played some of the comments from members of congress who were absolutely furious. the key here it was the speaker's fellow republicans they went ballistic. it's a perfect word. you can almost still feel the walls here shaking, ashley, from how angry they were on the house floor the minute they realized last night the speaker was not going to allow this to come up for a vote in this lame
. >> andrew cuomo and new york's largely democratic delegation also slammed the house's failure to act and so did one of new york's leading republican house members. >> he kept telling me wait until the vote is over, wait until the fiscal cliff vote is over and then he was gone. he refused to meet with us. he yelled i'm not meeting with you people. he wouldn't tell us why. he just decided to sneak off in the dark of night. >> by day's end, john boehner was promising a vote on...
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. >> new york's governor andrew cuomo and members of new york's largely democratic delegation also slammed the house's failure to act, and so did one of new york's leading republican house members. >> he kept telling me wait until the vote is over, wait until the fiscal cliff vote is over and then everything will be taken care of. and then he was gone. and he wouldn't -- he refused to meet with us. he actually yelled at congressman lobiando, said i'm not meeting with you people. he wouldn't tell us why. he just decided to sneak off in the dark of night. >> by day's end, though, he was singing a different tune because the house speaker john boehner was promising a friday vote on at least part of the relief package and a speedy action on the rest of the relief package. still, a lot of people are really disgusted about how we got to this in the first place. our chief congressional correspondent dana bash has the very latest on that. so dana, point a to point b, it seemed like this was warp speed, from no action to some action to hopefully a lot more action. can you sort of walk me through the
. >> new york's governor andrew cuomo and members of new york's largely democratic delegation also slammed the house's failure to act, and so did one of new york's leading republican house members. >> he kept telling me wait until the vote is over, wait until the fiscal cliff vote is over and then everything will be taken care of. and then he was gone. and he wouldn't -- he refused to meet with us. he actually yelled at congressman lobiando, said i'm not meeting with you people. he...
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. >> we in the delegation, our governor, governor christie, governor cuomo, mayor bloomberg, republicans and democrats, we all understood that we had a commitment and we had a deal, that after the fiscal cliff vote we would in fact be voting on the sandy relief bill. lori: i understand you really got into it with the speaker. resulted in an actual shouting match. did it get that heated? >> i'm not going to comment on that. i'm going to comment that we need ad result. the day after katrina there was $60 billion released within 10 days. we have people that are hurting. we have people whose lives were ripped apart. we have people who lost everything. we have people who are pinning their hopes on the federal government coming in and doing what they have done for every other disaster community across the country. now we're at a desperate stage. lori: want to ask you if you just voted for, for speaker of the house boehner in his re-election? >> yes, i did. lori: you did. obviously you were pleased with the decision for him to turn around and hold a vote today, i'm sorry, the relief now? >> yes
. >> we in the delegation, our governor, governor christie, governor cuomo, mayor bloomberg, republicans and democrats, we all understood that we had a commitment and we had a deal, that after the fiscal cliff vote we would in fact be voting on the sandy relief bill. lori: i understand you really got into it with the speaker. resulted in an actual shouting match. did it get that heated? >> i'm not going to comment on that. i'm going to comment that we need ad result. the day after...
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>> joe, the last month, i was working with the speaker, with governor cuomo, with mayor bloomberg to get assurance that the sandy aid would be voted on. what john had said it once it came from the senate, it would be voted on. he promised us that. and then during the days leading -- sunday, monday and tuesday, we were working on -- sunday, monday working on legislation. and it was agreed to. it was on the website which basically would have allowed for $60 billion to be voted. and we were told first it would be on tuesday. then they said it might be over to wednesday morning. late tuesday we started hearing rumors that it might be pulled. it was all the controversy over the fiscal cliff legislation, john felt to have that and then on top of that to be giving $60 billion to new york and new jersey could cause too much of a split in the party. but he didn't tell us that. and he went off the floor tuesday night. and we had to find out from an aide that the bill was pulled. and congress was over. congress has ended, so we have to start all over in the next congress. and i just felt at the
>> joe, the last month, i was working with the speaker, with governor cuomo, with mayor bloomberg to get assurance that the sandy aid would be voted on. what john had said it once it came from the senate, it would be voted on. he promised us that. and then during the days leading -- sunday, monday and tuesday, we were working on -- sunday, monday working on legislation. and it was agreed to. it was on the website which basically would have allowed for $60 billion to be voted. and we were...
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. >> reporter: good morning, ali, yeah, it's still snowing here and governor cuomo has asked new yorkers to avoid non-essential travel and here's why. poor visibility and the possibility of ice on the streets. you can see these are the streets of downtown syracuse. plows have been coming by here all morning long, but the snow is still accumulating here. i'm show you some of the accumulation. a foot is expected from this storm but also in the past four days syracuse has had 13 inches of snow from other snowstorms. now, city officials say that this area is actually used to snow. however, the amount of snow in such a short period of time is a challenge, of course, for cleanup efforts and it's been almost two years since syracuse has had a foot of snow all in one shot, ali. >> we'll keep an eye on this with you through the course of the morning. this powerful storm really rocked the nation's heart land. travel conditions so treacherous the indiana pacers had to postpone last night's home game against the chicago bulls. flying and driving today and the rest of the week will continue to be tou
. >> reporter: good morning, ali, yeah, it's still snowing here and governor cuomo has asked new yorkers to avoid non-essential travel and here's why. poor visibility and the possibility of ice on the streets. you can see these are the streets of downtown syracuse. plows have been coming by here all morning long, but the snow is still accumulating here. i'm show you some of the accumulation. a foot is expected from this storm but also in the past four days syracuse has had 13 inches of...
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we were told during the week, we worked on this with eric cantor, governor cuomo, mayor christie, and were told it was coming up for a vote either tuesday evening or wednesday morning, and then we started getting rumors on tuesday evening that it may not come up, might be pulled, congress may adjourn. >> did you express your outrage directly to the speaker? >> at that time it was not raised, i was concerned. let me talk to you about the fiscal cliff, 99% certain the bill did come up. john said he would talk to us right after the vote and decide what was going to happen, but instead after the vote, the speaker left and we found out from an aide that the bill was pulled. >> here's what you said wednesday. you said that speaker boehner had a, quote, dismissive and cavalier attitude and republicans have no trouble finding new york when it comes to raising money, and i would just say to anyone from new york or new jersey who contributes one penny to congressional republicans after this should have their head examined. do you stand by those comments? >> i stand by what i said at the time, i
we were told during the week, we worked on this with eric cantor, governor cuomo, mayor christie, and were told it was coming up for a vote either tuesday evening or wednesday morning, and then we started getting rumors on tuesday evening that it may not come up, might be pulled, congress may adjourn. >> did you express your outrage directly to the speaker? >> at that time it was not raised, i was concerned. let me talk to you about the fiscal cliff, 99% certain the bill did come...